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[echo_ocean]

Such good intentions end up with consequences of the worst sort. I was recalling how obliged I was to smile. I owed it to him not to be the kind of girl to shy away. I had seen him perform during one swift moment of my life. But still I lowered my eyes to the floor, my mouth folded so tightly in the corners like a hospital bed sheet. Can you

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[anonymous]

we have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons which at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our love